Mandingo
Romance • R • 1975 • 2 hr 7 min
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Perry King, James Mason, Susan George, Ken Norton, Richard Ward
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It shows the harsh reality of history and, because of that, may be hard to stomach.
Unlike most movies on the topic, this movie just shows what slavery was like. It felt real. It didn’t hold back and it didn’t overdo it.
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Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. He also buys his father a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and train as a prize-fighter.
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
